1946: The Burnden Park Tragedy

Burnden Park, former home of the Bolton Wanderers Football Club was the scene of one of football's biggest tragedys.
On 9th Manch 1946, during a FA Cup quarter-final second-leg tie between Bolton and Stoke City F.C., crowd congestion caused people to become crushed as eighty-five thousand people tried to watch the match.
Thirty-three people died at the scene and hundreds were injured.
Now, listen again to 'Just Another Staturday - The Burnden Park' introduced by Matt Haslam and presented by Tom Tyrell -










